LM24 Le Mans Test Day (Post your pics & news here!)

Liz · 23 Apr 2003, 16:24 (Ref:578197)

Famous 10-Tenths Members photographer djb and journalist yours truly have been approved for credentials to cover the Pre-Q/Test Day/Whatever They Call It These Days!

Besides giving the world a chance to see djb's great photos, and to read my deathless prose, this will enable me to continue my quest for a SPYKER SQUADRON JACKET.

Any requests for stuff we can cover for your entertainment, please let us know.

kdr · 23 Apr 2003, 16:37 (Ref:578217)

see you at the "centre des expositions du mans" then liz

i believe they call it essais preliminaires. fab?

Fab · 23 Apr 2003, 17:00 (Ref:578256)

Essais préliminaires ! Ker, you're bilingual !

Will we meet during the break ? I'll start my pics from pits grandstands or Welcome roof (if open)... I'll certainly fancy a coffee in this chilly May morning

Can't wait ! Could you imagine ? Barely more than one week to go !!! Oh boy !

kdr · 23 Apr 2003, 17:16 (Ref:578285)

fab. is there anything planned for lunchtime? sebring bar?

Fab · 23 Apr 2003, 17:21 (Ref:578291)

I think the Sebring Bar will be the best place, but I'm afraid there will be a lot of people : I'll may try the ACO lounge in the Durand grandstand, where I'll probably meet FG (with Miss J and the ankle biters)... I think it's open for the press officers (only for ACO members usualy)

Did I let you my cel number ?

**Aysedasi** · 23 Apr 2003, 17:34 (Ref:578302)

I shall look on with envy. (Actually, I can't believe it's coming around soooooo quickly).

rdjones · 23 Apr 2003, 17:36 (Ref:578306)

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Originally posted by Aysedasi
I shall look on with envy. (Actually, I can't believe it's coming around soooooo quickly).

I no, thank god I will be getting my motor fix at Brands that weekend

kdr · 23 Apr 2003, 17:55 (Ref:578337)

don't get dizzy rd!

Liz · 24 Apr 2003, 00:44 (Ref:578841)

We shall be at both Brands AND Le Mans. Fortunately we have a couple of very quick chauffeurs.

I can't wait! I am so tired of being stuck in Toronto among all this hysteria about SARS! (No, we are NOT dropping like flies here. The media have gone mad.)

Fab · 24 Apr 2003, 05:19 (Ref:579029)

Liz, we'll recognize you by your white mask !!!

(well, not so funny, sorry

)

Javi · 24 Apr 2003, 07:09 (Ref:579085)

Sometimes I guess I spend the year aslept. Time flies, doesn´t it? It´s really been a year since last PQ? Unfortunately I cant go (I managed my holidays for the race in june, but for may was praying too much.... Enjoy those of you who can go, I´ll have to wait until june 12th to arrive... (but I´ll be carrying enough beer to compensate for it, ha ha ha)

FG1 · 26 Apr 2003, 14:10 (Ref:581448)

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Originally posted by Fab
where I'll probably meet FG (with Miss J and the ankle biters)... I think it's open for the press officers (only for ACO members usualy)

I've never been in there, but always wanted to! We'll be driving down Friday evening, and will probably arrive around 02:00. We'll give you a call Saturday.

FG

FG1 · 26 Apr 2003, 14:13 (Ref:581449)

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Originally posted by Liz
We shall be at both Brands AND Le Mans. Fortunately we have a couple of very quick chauffeurs.

I'm very envious. Brands in my local circuit, and I would have gone to the meeting had it not been for PQ. It's very irritating.

FG

kdr · 26 Apr 2003, 14:25 (Ref:581455)

it would only have been an anticlimax fg..

Fab · 27 Apr 2003, 07:23 (Ref:581862)

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Originally posted by FG1
I've never been in there, but always wanted to!

We had a two meals together in the Durand restaurant last year in September , FG

, including the 'dunk your croissant' experience in the sunday morning...

But I've never been in Sebring's Bar (each time I wanted to, there was a line outside, and I didn't want to queue). Let's say in the ACO grandstand...

Ker, we're close now, where could we meet, I'm still asking the question to myself, for a question of timing : try a SMS on sunday morning to find a place (Sebring's bar, ACO/Durand granstand restaurant : should be possible with your press pass).

What about a lunch here on sunday noon ? Depending of your job... we're only in it of the pleasure, you're working !

kdr · 27 Apr 2003, 08:19 (Ref:581884)

i'm going to try and get in the aco grandstand to see if theres any pictures from there, but sebring bar at 1pm seems easier. passes only get you so far...especially at le mans!

Liz · 27 Apr 2003, 12:49 (Ref:582043)

Will try to make the Sebring Bar at 1:00 p.m. -- I'll have my Lucky Strike gear on, probably, depending on how warm it is.

Or my SPYKER SQUADRON JACKET.

For all travellers from here, aspirin and cough suppressant before leaving for the airport are a MUST. I have seasonal allergies and don't want anybody to think I'm contagious or anything. I haven't been anywhere near any of the vectors or anyone who has.

kdr · 27 Apr 2003, 13:13 (Ref:582054)

sebring bar seems easiest then fab. i'll have to transmit some pictures at lunchtime...but should be able to pop up.

FG1 · 27 Apr 2003, 21:56 (Ref:582388)

Quote:

Originally posted by Fab
We had a two meals together in the Durand restaurant last year in September , FG , including the 'dunk your croissant' experience in the sunday morning

I thought those were in the ACO grandstand, or are we talking at cross purposes? I thought the Durand stand was the little concrete thing more or less oposite the pit exit?

FG

Fab · 28 Apr 2003, 05:45 (Ref:582497)

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Originally posted by FG1
I thought those were in the ACO grandstand, or are we talking at cross purposes? I thought the Durand stand was the little concrete thing more or less oposite the pit exit?

FG

Actually, the Durand is the ACO annexe ; the little concrete thing is the old press grandstand.

The Sebring Bar is in the pits grandstand, access by the rear...

So it's done : Sebring's Bar at 1pm or so... FG, we'll meet first in the ACO, if I can succeed to take with me Mrs Fab's sister and her boyfriend...

Fab · 28 Apr 2003, 06:04 (Ref:582503)

Weather forecasts are not very pleasant for the week ; we'll have rain at least three days in the week, a dry saturday, but we should have some showers on sunday...

I hate this ! Even if the forecasts are better for sunday than the next monday (heavy rain

)

I'm a little bit anxious...

Kpy · 28 Apr 2003, 11:56 (Ref:582765)

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Originally posted by Fab

But I've never been in Sebring's Bar (each time I wanted to, there was a line outside, and I didn't want to queue). Let's say in the ACO grandstand...

Fab - You're mixing the Sebring bar up withe the Sebring restaurant. There's never a queue at the bar entrance for PQ. Be there 1300 Sunday!
I shall email you tonight.

kdr · 28 Apr 2003, 12:43 (Ref:582805)

i must admit i'm as mixed up as fab. but now i know theres a difference i will track it down!

paul-collins · 28 Apr 2003, 13:57 (Ref:582851)

Quote:

Originally posted by Liz
For all travellers from here, aspirin and cough suppressant before leaving for the airport are a MUST. I have seasonal allergies and don't want anybody to think I'm contagious or anything. I haven't been anywhere near any of the vectors or anyone who has.

Just to back up what Liz said, the number of cases of SARS under treatment in Toronto has been declining of late. The worst seems to be over, and it's all traceable to the initial case - and most people who got it work at hospitals.

If Liz hasn't been to a hospital or one of about three specific funerals recently, you can breathe easily around her.

Fab · 28 Apr 2003, 15:54 (Ref:582951)

Quote:

Originally posted by Kpy
Fab - You're mixing the Sebring bar up withe the Sebring restaurant. There's never a queue at the bar entrance for PQ. Be there 1300 Sunday!
I shall email you tonight.

Heh

I'm all mixed up indeed !

Where's the difference ? Where's the bar, where is the restaurant ?

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